• Darren Aronofsky admitted that he tried to begin a feud between Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis throughout Black Swan.
• Portman mentioned that she was "separated" from her costar for many of manufacturing.
• Kunis mentioned the 2 actresses rapidly "found out" the filmmaker's scheme.

Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis acquired alongside splendidly on the set of Black Swan — regardless of director Darren Aronofsky's finest efforts.

The Requiem for a Dream filmmaker mentioned attempting to sow the seeds of discontent between the 2 actresses of his 2010 ballet horror-drama in an interview with Vogue celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the movie.

"I used to be attempting to be a sneaky director and make them argue," Aronofsky remembered. "Mila and Natalie each realized in a short time what I used to be doing and made enjoyable of me, so it rapidly turned a joke that all of us understood. They're each very intelligent and had been immediately aware of no matter trick I used to be taking part in."

In the identical interview, Portman and Kunis each mirrored on Aronofsky's uncommon technique for crafting onscreen stress. "I bear in mind being separated from Mila and that we weren't in the identical area rather a lot after we weren't capturing," Portman recalled. "Darren made some remark early on, like, 'Ya know, Nat, Mila's dancing so nicely.' And I used to be like, 'After all she is! She's so f—ing gifted and I like her a lot and I'm completely satisfied she's doing an excellent job!'"

Kunis mentioned she instantly noticed that Aronofsky's lies didn't add up. "Darren would inform me, 'Nat is working actually, actually laborious. She's not even taking Saturdays and Sundays off,'" the Forgetting Sarah Marshall actress remembered. "Then I might textual content Nat and he or she'd be like, '…No, I'm not?' I believe that's how we found out what Darren was as much as, but it surely was all in good enjoyable."

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It ought to come as no shock that Portman and Kunis had been chummy on set, because the Star Wars actress was the one who advisable Kunis for the film within the first place.

"We had been associates for years and I bear in mind being on the Rose Bowl Flea Market along with her, speaking about this ballet film I used to be making with Darren," Portman remembered. "Mila mentioned, 'I bear in mind after I would take off my pointe sneakers…' and I used to be like, 'Wait, you probably did ballet?!' I instantly known as Darren and mentioned there was this superb actress with ballet expertise who could be good for Lily."

And regardless of Aronofsky's trickery, Kunis had nothing however reward for the filmmaker. "Each journalist needed to understand how scary Darren was: 'How intense was his set? How intense was he?'" she recalled. "I might say, 'He's really a extremely sort, pretty man who took us to see Twilight one time as a result of we had the time off.' And journalists had been at all times so dissatisfied that he wasn't some tortured soul who handled us like rubbish."

Portman, who gained an Oscar for the movie, agreed."Black Swan was deeply difficult but it surely was an exquisite expertise," she mentioned. "Our set wasn't foolish, however everybody was sort and revered each other."

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A remastered model of Black Swan will hit IMAX screens in theaters nationwide on Aug. 21 and 24.

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